while borgbackup is superior I’d like to hear your thoughts on that whole restic thing, e.g. backrest.

i am using https://freedns.afraid.org/ for over a decade now and problems occured less than 5 times over that period. all others i ever tried were worse over time.

yes. :-(

true. but man it was late so like at the worst time… just hate it so much when that happens.

borking your system using a terminal is just a right of passage

I’ll borrow that mate!

apk del --purge $(apk info -R | awk ‘{print $1}’)

(1/243) Purging alpine-base (3.16.9-r0)

(2/243) Purging alpine-baselayout (3.2.0-r23)

(3/243) Purging alpine-baselayout-data (3.2.0-r23)

(4/243) Purging apk-tools (2.12.9-r3)

…

it took me that time to restore the system …obviously not being able to boot it anymore. i feel deeply ashamed.

it was late. i “thought” i might free up space inside that alpine lxc. i wasnt. i just like a moran wiped all the apps. then went to bed. i cant even recall what i thought would prevent this from destroying everything. at least it wasnt a closed OS…that would have cost me 51yrs.